In this extended interview, actor Michael K. Williams who played President Obama’s favorite character, Omar, on ’The Wire' joins Ari Melber to discuss his emotional new documentary exposing the school-to-prison pipeline. Williams reveals he “went to sleep” after Obama’s election, but after hearing Obama shout out his character’s “compass”, he “wanted to listen” to what Obama “actually had to say”.
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